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Quotes About Solo

After a few hours they stopped to have soup, but Wanda kept going alone, eager for the window of opportunity to be the first woman on the summit.
~ Unknown
So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.
~ Jerry Spinelli
We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
~ John Oates
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
~ Shirley Manson
I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.
~ Shane Filan
I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.
~ Kim Deal
Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.
~ Hayley Williams
While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of 'Flying Down to Rio' and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential.
~ Ginger Rogers
the advantages of bachelorhood: being able to get into bed from either side.
~ Unknown
It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
~ Valerie Simpson
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
~ Norah Jones
I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me.
~ Jacob Collier
It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
~ John Motson
The cornet solo of our Gaelic islandsWill sound out every now and againThrough all eternity.I have heard it and am content for ever.
~ Hugh MacDiarmid
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The Rolling Stone magazine: " Jarrett… demonstrated his strengths – his sure times, his far-ranging imagination, his sharply-honed technique and his particular inner fire, which is at once steady and vulnerable. When he plays alone, Jarrett pushes his creativity to its limits. It's almost scary to hear someone who apparently relies so totally on the spirited, flowing, almost effusive directions of his muse, yet the muse seems to never let him down.
~ Unknown
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.
~ Lee Ann Womack
As much as group work is important, it's better to work alone than to work with the wrong group.
~ Terry Mark
I'm single because I was born that way.
~ Mae West
When you're single, your pockets will jingle.
~ Unknown
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
~ Victoria Justice
You don't have a partner, Marshal, You came here alone.
~ Dennis Lehane
I don't write duets - I write songs for my voice.
~ Tarja Turunen